Weeding the School Library Collection

Some web resources to assist you with this section of the course:

Managing and Analyzing your Collection: A Practical Guide for Small Libraries and School Library Media Centers (Chapter on Weeding) available through Google Books: http://bit.ly/aX9rjr

Sunlink Weed of the Month: http://www.sunlink.ucf.edu/weed/

CREW: A Weeding Manual for Modern Libraries: http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/pubs/crew/

Weeding the School Library Collection: A Guide from Titlewave: http://www.titlewave.ca/intro/pdfs/grants-weeding.pdf

Weeding Library Collections: A Selected Annotated Bibliography for Library Collection Development: http://www.ala.org/ala/professionalresources/libfactsheets/alalibraryfactsheet15.cfm

Weeding Library Collections: A Best Practices Wiki: http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Weeding_Library_Collections

Brochure from the California Department of Education: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cr/lb/documents/weedingbrochure.pdf

Awful Library Books (blog): http://awfullibrarybooks.wordpress.com

Blog post by Doug Johnson (The Blue Skunk Blog):
http://www.doug-johnson.com/dougwri/weed.html